Amazon Linux 2 : qemu, --advisory ALAS2-2023-2148 (ALAS-2023-2148)

The version of qemu installed on the remote host is prior to 3.1.0-8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2148 advisory. A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions up to and including...

Low: wireshark

Issue Overview: Due to failure in validating the length provided by an attacker-crafted MSMMS packet, Wireshark version 4.0.5 and prior, in an unusual configuration, is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly code execution in the context of the process running Wireshark...

Important: gstreamer-plugins-base

Issue Overview: Integer overflow leading to heap overwrite in FLAC image tag handling CVE-2023-37327 Affected Packages: gstreamer-plugins-base Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras...

Low: open-vm-tools

Issue Overview: A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine. CVE-2023-20867 Affected Packages: open-vm-tools Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2...

Medium: compat-libtiff3

Issue Overview: A NULL pointer dereference in TIFFClose is caused by a failure to open an output file non-existent path or a path that requires permissions like /dev/null while specifying zones. CVE-2023-3316 Affected Packages: compat-libtiff3 Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 A...

Medium: iniparser

Issue Overview: iniparser v4.1 is vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in function iniparsergetlongint which misses check NULL for function iniparsergetstring's return. CVE-2023-33461 Affected Packages: iniparser Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit thi...

Medium: cups

Issue Overview: A vulnerability was found in CUPS. This issue occurs due to logging data of free memory to the logging service AFTER the connection has been closed, when it should have logged the data immediately before the connection closed, resulting in a use-after-free in cupsdAcceptClient in...

Medium: libmicrohttpd

Issue Overview: GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS Denial of Service due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the postprocessor.c MHDcreatepostprocessor method. This allows an attacker to remotely send a malicious HTTP POST packet that includes one or more '\0'...

Medium: python-pip

Issue Overview: A vulnerability was found in the way the ipaddress python module computes hash values in the IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface classes. This flaw allows an attacker to create many dictionary entries, due to the performance of a dictionary containing the IPv4Interface or IPv6Interfac...

Medium: python3-requests

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the Python-requests package, where it is vulnerable to potentially leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers, specifically during redirects to an HTTPS origin. This is a product of how rebuildproxies is used to recompute and reattach the...

Medium: squashfs-tools

Issue Overview: Integer overflow in the readfragmenttable4 function in unsquash-4.c in Squashfs and sasquatch allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted input, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow. CVE-2015-4645 1 unsquash-1.c, 2 unsquash-2.c, 3...

Important: c-ares

Issue Overview: Denial of Service. An issue in c-ares was found where a 0-byte UDP payload can cause a Denial of Service CVE-2023-32067. Affected Packages: c-ares Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core an...

Important: gstreamer1-plugins-base

Issue Overview: Heap overwrite in subtitle parsing CVE-2023-37328 Affected Packages: gstreamer1-plugins-base Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories. Issue Correction: Run yum...

Low: libcap

Issue Overview: libcap is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by the error handling in wrappthreadcreate function, which will cause memory to be leaked in the case of an error. CVE-2023-2602 Affected Packages: libcap Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository...

Medium: mc

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in Midnight Commander through 4.8.26. When establishing an SFTP connection, the fingerprint of the server is neither checked nor displayed. As a result, a user connects to the server without the ability to verify its authenticity. CVE-2021-36370 Affected...

Medium: python3-pygments

Issue Overview: In pygments 1.1+, fixed in 2.7.4, the lexers used to parse programming languages rely heavily on regular expressions. Some of the regular expressions have exponential or cubic worst-case complexity and are vulnerable to ReDoS. By crafting malicious input, an attacker can cause a...

Medium: lynx

Issue Overview: Lynx through 2.8.9 mishandles the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, which allows remote attackers to discover cleartext credentials because they may appear in SNI data. CVE-2021-38165 Affected Packages: lynx Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository...

Medium: ImageMagick

Issue Overview: stack overflow when parsing malicious tiff image CVE-2023-3195 Affected Packages: ImageMagick Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories. Issue Correction: Run yum...

Medium: ImageMagick

Issue Overview: The upstream bug report describes this issue as follows: "A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick =7.1.1, where heap-based buffer overflow was found in coders/tiff.c." CVE-2023-3428 Affected Packages: ImageMagick Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core...

Medium: python-setuptools

Issue Overview: Python Packaging Authority PyPA setuptools before 65.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via HTML in a crafted package or custom PackageIndex page. There is a Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS in packageindex.py. CVE-2022-40897 Affected Packages:...